“What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of what you need to do.”

“Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.”

— Jim Rohn

“Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you’ll never, ever get it out.”

— T. Wolsey

“Silence is also conversation.”

“Show me disloyalty, I’ll show you detachment.”

“Every champion was once a contender, that refused to give up.”

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.”

— Tupac

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”

“Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.”

— Siddhārtha Gautama

“Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves – and by which they are willing to be judged.”

— Frederick Smith

“There’s an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, ‘It’s not the right time just yet.’ There’s no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business.”

— Kevin Plank

“High expectations are the key to absolutely everything.”

— Sam Walton

“We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.”

— Pete Cashmore

“I always did something that I was a little not ready to do. I think that, that is how you grow. When there’s a moment of ‘Wow, I’m not so sure that I can do this, and you push through those moments, it’s then that you have a breakthrough. Sometimes that’s a sign that something really great is about to happen. You’re about to grow and learn a lot more about yourself.”

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Marissa Mayer

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

— Khalil Gibran

“If you change the way the brain perceives a situation, you will change the way it will respond to that situation forever.”

— Faulkner

“When people are stressed, they also tend to be crowd followers.”

— Van Tharp

“Some people blame everyone except themselves when they lose money.”

— Monroe Trout

“To play any game successfully, you have to have some skill, an edge, but beyond that it’s money management.”

— Mark Minervini

“The unhappiest people in this world are those who care the most about what other people think.”